Ms Joyas Voladoras

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Joyas Voladoras is a type of humming bird also known as the Flying Jewels, it was a name given to them by the first white explorers in America. The writer is using poetic language and metaphor and also using the humming bird to capture and manipulate how the heart pains and love in the essay. By saying the humming bird heart is the size of a pencil eraser and their heart humming faster that we could clearly hear and each one visits a thousand flower a day they can dive at sixty miles an hour, fly backward and fly more than five hundred miles without pausing to rest. Every creature on earth has approximately two billion heartbeat to spend in a lifetime, you can spend it like a tortoise, or you can spend them fast like a humming bird. The biggest heart in the world is inside the blue whale but we know this: the animal with the largest heart in the world generally travel in pairs, no living being is without interior liquid motion. We all churn inside. So much held in the heart in a lifetime. We open windows to each but we live alone in the house of the heart. All hearts finally are bruised and scarred, scored and torn, repaired by time and will, patched by force of character, yet fragile. You can brick up your heart as stout and tight and hard and cold and impregnable as you possibly can and down it comes in an instant, felled by a woman’s second glance, a child’s apple breath, the shatter of glass in the road, the words “ I have something to tell

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